Post 9 - April 2020: Working together amid COVID-19.

 Post 9-April 2020: Working with masks and solar power

By now the pandemic was in full-swing and Jim's age put him at risk. Although he is more active and healthy than the majority of his peers (he is 82 after all), we were both concerned.  We discussed the matter and agreed that for now we would both wear masks and stay outdoors, which we had been doing anyway. 

I was also getting to the most challenging portions of the build for me, all things electrical. 

I wanted to be able to connect to "shore power" when it was available. I didn't expect to be at RV parks, but state and county parks often have hookups and it is nice to be able to run 110 appliances at times as well as charge the batteries if it is winter and/or not sunny. 

So next we installed a 30 amp external plug and wired it to be connected later to a 2000 watt inverter/converter- this component allows 2 things - the inverter takes 110 from the outside (a hookup) and changes it to 12volt to charge my 2 LiFePO4 batteries. The converter changes 12volt to 110 so I can run some 110 appliances off my batteries. So first, the plug.  Let's drill yet another hole in the van! 

No blunders during this affair, and I was gratified to get this part done. 

On to the solar.